Jean-Arcady Meyer

Ce livre décrit la vie et l'œuvre des principaux facteurs d'automates et proto-robots, depuis les légendes anciennes jusqu'aux débuts de l'Intelligence Artificielle. Certains de ces hommes ont marqué l'Histoire par leurs armes, par leurs écrits ou par leur philosophie. Ils ont souvent révolutionné les connaissances scientifiques ou techniques de leur époque. Parfois, ils ont tout su sur tout ; d'autre fois, ils ont été accusés de n'avoir rien compris à rien. Ils ont été charpentiers, horlogers, prêtres, bateleurs, commerçants, entrepreneurs, chercheurs. Il leur est arrivé de côtoyer les rois, les empereurs et les papes ; il leur est arrivé aussi de croupir en prison ou de se suicider. L'un d'entre eux est devenu roi lui-même et un autre est devenu le pape de l'An Mil. Ils sont morts riches et célèbres ou inconnus et ruinés. Cependant, tous sont des êtres exceptionnels qui - parmi de nombreuses autres contributions remarquables à l'histoire des sciences - ont produit des automates authentiques, de faux automates, des automates truqués ou de véritables robots. Pourtant, ils connurent souvent des faiblesses typiquement humaines et il reste sur leurs vies et leurs œuvres de nombreux mystères que le lecteur découvrira au fil de ces pages et de ces trois volumes qui couvrent environ trente siècles de notre histoire.

Volume II – De Salomon de Caus à Johann Nepomuk Maelzel

Dei ex Machinis

Minoru Asada

John C. T. Hallam

Jun Tani

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2008, held in Osaka, Japan in July 2008. The 30 revised full papers and 21 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on the animat approach to adaptive behaviour, evolution, navigation and internal world models, perception and control, learning and adaptation, cognition, emotion and behaviour, collective and social behaviours, adaptive behaviour in language and communication, and applied adaptive behaviour.

10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2008, Osaka, Japan, July 7-12, 2008, Proceedings

From Animals to Animats 10

John Hallam

Stephane Doncieux

Benoit Girard

Agnes Guillot

Jean-Baptiste Mouret

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2010, held in Paris and Clos Lucé, France, in August 2010. The articles cover all main areas in animat research, including perception and motor control, action selection, motivation and emotion, internal models and representation, collective behavior, language evolution, evolution and learning. The authors focus on well-defined models, computer simulations or robotic models, that help to characterize and compare various organizational principles, architectures, and adaptation processes capable of inducing adaptive behavior in real animals or synthetic agents, the animats.

11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2010, Paris - Clos Lucé, France, August 25-28, 2010. Proceedings

From Animals to Animats 11

Stefano Nolfi

Raffaele Calabretta

Orazio Miglino

Domenico Parisi

Davide Marocco

Gianluca Baldassare

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006. The 35 revised full papers and 35 revised poster papers presented are organized in topical sections on the animat approach to adaptive behaviour, perception and motor control, action selection and behavioral sequences, navigation and internal world models, learning and adaptation, evolution, collective and social behaviours, applied adaptive behavior and more.

9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006, Rome, Italy, September 25-29, 2006, Proceedings

From Animals to Animats 9

Philip Husbands

August 8-12, 1994, Brighton, England From Animals to Animats 3 brings together research intended to advance the fron tier of an exciting new approach to understanding intelligence. The contributors represent a broad range of interests from artificial intelligence and robotics to ethology and the neurosciences. Unifying these approaches is the notion of "animat" -- an artificial animal, either simulated by a computer or embodied in a robot, which must survive and adapt in progressively more challenging environments. The 58 contributions focus particularly on well-defined models, computer simulations, and built robots in order to help characterize and compare various principles and architectures capable of inducing adaptive behavior in real or artificial animals. Topics include: - Individual and collective behavior. - Neural correlates of behavior. - Perception and motor control. - Motivation and emotion. - Action selection and behavioral sequences. - Ontogeny, learning, and evolution. - Internal world models and cognitive processes. - Applied adaptive behavior. - Autonomous robots. - Heirarchical and parallel organizations. - Emergent structures and behaviors. - Problem solving and planning. - Goal-directed behavior. - Neural networks and evolutionary computation. - Characterization of environments. A Bradford Book

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

From Animals to Animats 3

Rolf Pfeifer

Stewart W. Wilson

Bruce Blumberg

The Animals to Animats Conference brings together researchers fromethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificiallife, robotics, engineering, and related fields to furtherunderstanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allownatural and synthetic agents (animats) to adapt and survive inuncertain environments The Animals to Animats Conference brings together researchers from ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, engineering, and related fields to further understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and synthetic agents (animats) to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The work presented focuses on well-defined models--robotic, computer-simulation, and mathematical--that help to characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in both natural animals and animats.

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

From Animals to Animats 5

Stewart W Wilson

H. L. Roitblat

More than sixty contributions in From Animals to Animats 2 byresearchers in ethology, ecology, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and related fieldsinvestigate behaviors and the underlying mechanisms that allow animals and, potentially, robots toadapt and survive in uncertain environments. Jean-Arcady Meyer is Director of Research, CNRS, Paris.Herbert L. Roitblat is Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Stewart W.Wilson is a scientist at The Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge,Massachusetts. Topics covered: The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behavior,Perception and Motor Control, Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences, Cognitive Maps and InternalWorld Models, Learning, Evolution, Collective Behavior.

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

From Animals to Animats 2

Jean-Arcady Meyer

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